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Mandibles
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Can they actually bite using those things or are there just there to look scary?
On the Giant Water Bug (bottom left) they aren't even mouthparts, those are it's first pair of legs.
That's kinda hot
You should start a sexy bug leg/mouthparts community.
Imagine some fishnets over those puppies
isn't that technically how it works for all arthropods? Anything vaguely limb-like is in fact a heavily derived leg, including antennae.
These are real, current legs. The front 2 of the insect norm of 6